List of Contents -- Introduction -- A. General and Theoretical Issues -- 1. Types of languages and the simple pattern of the core of language -- 2. Freedom of language Its nature, its sources, and its consequences* -- 3. On comparison of approaches (Remarks and illustrations) -- 4. Functionalism in Czech linguistics and in the world -- 5. Structure, meaning and use -- 6. Formal and Computational Linguistics in Prague -- 7. Underlying structure of sentences and its relations to semantics -- 8. A dependency based specification of topic and focus II - Formal account -- 9. Generative Beschreibung und die Ebenen des Sprachsystems -- 10. Introduction to Linguistic Mourphology* -- B. Syntax -- 11. Underlying Structures in Annotating Czech National Corpus -- 12. Revisiting the classification of the dependents -- 13. Case and meaning -- C. Topic-focus articulation -- 14. From functional sentence perspective to topic-focus articulation -- 15. The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research -- 16. Wortfolge und Fokus im Deutschen* -- 17. Functional sentence perspective in a generative description -- D. From sentence to discourse in semantics -- 18. Dynamics in the meaning of sentence and of discourse -- 19. From meaning via reference to content -- 20. Meaning, reference and discourse patterns -- E. Typology of languages -- 21. Natürlichkeit, Syntax und Typologie -- 22. Die Sprachtypologie V. Skaličkas -- 23. On the notion "type of language" -- 24. Zur Typologie des Infinitivs -- F. Speaking and writing -- 25. Spoken Czech revisited -- 26. Towards a theory of phonemic orthography -- References -- Bibliography of Petr Sgall -- Name Index -- Subject Index.